@CohereLabs just released 🌿 Tiny Aya: a fully open-source 3B parameter model that speaks 70+ languages 🌍! But there’s a catch:
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’t support tool calling, the key capability that turns frontier models into powerful *agents*. So the real question is:
How hard is it to turn Tiny Aya into an agent?
Turns out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL. We’re sharing a hands-on example showing how to train Tiny Aya to turn it into a tool-calling agent using TRL, unlocking what could become the first *massively multilingual open agent*.
Hugging Face MCP Server v0.3.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Replace model_search and dataset_search with combined hub_repo_search tool. - Less distracting description for hf_doc_search - model_search and dataset_search tool calls will still function (plan to remove next release).
One year after the “DeepSeek Moment,” open source has become the default. Models, research, infrastructure, and deployment are increasingly shared to support large-scale, system-level integration.
This final blog examines how leading Chinese AI organizations are evolving ,and what this implies for the future of open source.